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"Jerry Greenberg" wrote in message om... It is true that there will be a number of low cost models in the market using CRT technology to fill the market place. But, the major manufactures, such as Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, NEC, and Hitachi, plan to discontinue CRT Monitors and TV sets by this fall coming. Yes - but as I said, you're just talking about those Japanese brands that most U.S. consumers have come to know over the past couple of decades. Japan isn't the largest producer of CRTs NOW, and has not been for quite some time - the bulk of CRTs are made in Korea, Taiwan, and (small but growing) mainland China, and these countries are also where the CRT monitors and TVs will continue to come from. (Japan hasn't dominated the PC monitor market, except for Sony's dominance of the very high end, for a good number of years, and this is now being repeated in television.) The problem is that, due to the poor economic conditions in Japan through much of the 1990s, these manufacturers could not afford to invest in maintaining and expanding their own in-house production capacity for CRTs (or, for that matter, other display technologies such as LCDs), and so the bulk of the worldwide capacity wound up in these other countries. And it's difficult for these companies to compete with those Korean/Taiwanese/etc.-based firms who either have a local supply of the basic components (or make them in-house) AND have their own domestic labor supply at a much lower cost than the Japanese. (And yes, this HAS happened in non-CRT technologies as well; the biggest TFT-LCD panel makers in the world right now are Samsung (Korea), LG Philips (Korea), AU Optronics (Taiwan), Chungwha (Taiwan), etc.. With the notable exception of Sharp, there has been very little investment by the Japanese in domestic LCD production facilities, at least for the mainstream large-area technologies. They have, instead, been trading technology know-how for a share in the capacity of these other makers.) Infact, we were told that many of these companies are no longer producing the tubes at this time, and when they run out, there will no longer be any assembly of these CRT sets. This includes all sizes from 3/4 inches (used in small viewfinders) up to the large 36 inch ones. Right. But that concerns only these Japanese manufacturers. There are many news releases that ALL major CRT production will not exist in about 2 years time. Please give your sources. I regularly visit these manufacturers, and believe me, there is absolutely no way that CRT production will cease in 2 years, or even 5. Unless, again, you believe that "major CRT production" involves ONLY Japanese sources. What IS happening is that the TV market is fragmenting into two distinct pieces - in North America, Japan, and Europe, the market is essentially saturated; just about everyone HAS a TV, and so new sales come primarily from replacements or upgrades. In those markets, the non-CRT technologies ARE going to start to take significant market share away from the CRT - but that's not the whole picture. Emerging markets, such as China and India, represent HUGE bases of potential customers, but these people can't afford 42" high-definition LCD TVs - those markets will be overwhelmingly CRT-based for a long, long time to come, and that means that the CRT MUST remain available worldwide as the "entry-level" TV technology. I very strongly suggest you visit the links below. Sorry, there's no news there that contradicts anything said above. The Japanese are exiting the CRT market. Old news. The LCD is also displacing the CRT in the desktop monitor market. Also old news. (In fact, the LCD has ALREADY displaced the CRT in monitors - LCDs went over the 50% mark in unit volumes last quarter, and will continue to increase their share to somewhat over 80% by 2008.) I've been following the display industry for about 20 years, and visit about 50-60 display manufacturers each year. I think I'm reasonably qualified to make some statements regarding the near-term forecasts for these markets...:-) Bob M. |
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